Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Trouble with laptop display - drm ebook fallout Date: 7 Aug 2025 01:53:22 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <7tfkklx99v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1g2p8dv6u6h04.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <105af0o$koge$5@dont-email.me> <105brt7$c5tt$1@paganini.bofh.team> <1070cev.40g.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <1070lik$3iahv$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jKoacz9wa3yYY6iBmrmvQgZS9RnaXUeq/3oxy/YKSRK42oMg5a Cancel-Lock: sha1:NGV8g5uXLRHn75r9P8nzqGPffTI= sha256:hChuEFSLgizWVSpzP8OdfWvp2yMr3OXOLhgb3pPy3no= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70519 alt.os.linux:81844 alt.comp.os.windows-10:186564 On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 23:39:16 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote: > In practice, if Google withdraw their email provision, it would cause > major world unrest. What they could always do, again to widespread > displeasure but probably would be acceptable, is start charging for it - > initially a small amount, maybe. I think it is too woven into their entire infrastructure. I've had a gmail account from the days when it was by invitation. I don't use it directly; anything arriving in gmail is automatically pulled by my regular mail account. However that has become my Google identity in for phones, Fitbit, and so forth. I recently received email that an account we'd created when we were testing Android tables had been inactive and was going to be deleted. i don't have a clue what the password was so sayanora. You could at least get around not having a MS account to set up Windows but I don't know if you could fire up a new tablet without a Google account.